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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"venereal disease"”.
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Women as Subject and Audience in World War II Venereal Disease Posters
Internationally, venereal disease first became a major health concern during World War I. Venereal diseases were some of the most common infections and led to more hospitalizations among soldiers than wounds or battle-related illness. The Selective Service discovered that almost fifteen percent of …
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New Conflict, Old Conundrum: Venereal Disease Control and Education in World War Two Canada
This dissertation examines venereal disease control and education in Second World War Canada. By examining the methods and materials used in anti-venereal disease campaigns, I show that these public health drives employed a “moral-medical” model of care and education which stressed that …
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Assay development for use in drug discovery against Bovine Trichomoniasis
<p>Bovine trichomoniasis is a venereal disease that affects cattle. The causative agent of this disease is <em>Tritrichomonas foetus</em>, a flagellated protozoan. There is no current FDA approved treatment for this disease. The purpose of this study was to develop new compound screening assays …
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Health related lifestyles of adolescents : a study of smoking, alcohol and habit-forming drug use, and sexual activity, in a group of high-school students in Cape Town
… activity, and knowledge of contraception and venereal disease; Examination of whether the above habits correlated within individuals i.e. whether those who smoked were more likely to use drugs or be sexually active, and vice versa.
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Gene Expression in Endometrial Tissues of Normal Mares and Mares With Delayed Uterine Clearance
… in the uterine lumen following breeding events, venereal disease or an estral cycle. This syndrome is typically seen in older, multiparous mares and mares with poor reproductive tract conformation. The etiopathogenesis of DUC has not been fully elucidated but suggested causes include poor genital …
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The management of corneal graft rejection
Descriptions of corneal disease and suggested treatments have been documented since the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece. However, in these cultures corneal surgery was limited to various types of superficial keratectomy. The idea of corneal grafting was suggested relatively recently3,4• …
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Dirty Little Secrets: Prostitution and the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study in Guatemala
… Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study, a human experiment that tested venereal disease prevention among vulnerable populations. The prostitutes were considered to be, although they were not always in actuality, vectors of disease. Archival material exposed in …
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A study of endemic syphilis in Palestine
… a contrast to what is observed in the modern venereal diseases’ clinic. These facts suggest a difference either in the habits of the spirochaete or in its surroundings. Syphilis appears to have become common in the Turkish Empire about the year 1840. PART II. A detailed account of the author’s …
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32 in '44: A management and environmental study of submarine construction at Portsmouth Navy Yard during World War II
… to curb prostitution and an alarming increase in venereal disease. While wrestling with these day-to-day problems during the war, local communities feared an uncertain, and possibly economically disastrous, postwar future should peace bring dramatically reduced employment or closure of the …
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"We Have Never Allowed Such A Thing Here...": Social Responses to Saskatchewan's Early Sex Trade, 1880 to 1920
… shifted drastically as responsibility for venereal disease was placed largely on women who sold sex. Using government and police records, moral reform and public health documents, and media sources such as newspapers, as well as intersectional analysis of gender, race, class, and ethnicity, …
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Creating a Space in the Medical Profession: Female Physicians, Maternalism, and Eugenics Work in Weimar and Nazi Germany
… reform, and in the movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and in organizations like the Bund Deutscher Mädels (League of German Girls; BDM) and the Reichsmütterdienst (Reich Mothers' Service), as well as their efforts in the racial …
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Avaliação da assistência pré-natal com ênfase na sífilis gestacional na estratégia de saúde da família do Recife
… de reuniões mensais. A solicitação do VDRL (Venereal Disease Research Laboratory) e/ou teste rápido de sífilis na primeira consulta foi de 99,1% e no terceiro trimestre gestacional foi de 88,4%. A droga mais prescrita para o tratamento foi a penicilina G benzatina, entretanto 22,2% das …
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Health of street children in Cape Town, May-November 1989
… institutions and field care workers. 5) Limit venereal disease management to single dose treatment where possible. 6) Further studies need to be undertaken in the following areas: - solvent abuse - utilisation of health care resources utilisation institutions of street children shelters and …
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Development and preliminary evaluation of a diagnostic assay for neurosyphilis using a reverse transscription-polymerase chain reaction approach
… symptoms which can be confused with other diseases. Laboratory diagnosis is also problematic, as an increase in mononuclear cell and protein concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is non-specific. A treponemal serological assay, using CSF, the CSF-fluorescent treponemal …